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Key Selling Points: Celebrates the relationship of a young adult with their aging grandparents and the unique role grandparents can play in one's life Exploring resonant themes of adolescence Offers a view into the author's childhood fears The artwork and story are bursting with originality Artwork is unique and yet vaguely reminiscent of the great illustrator, Quentin Blake The quirky British-isms are delightfully explained in a fully illustrated glossary Explores adolescence with frankness but also with tenderness Fascinating real-life story with loads of detail Author's family life is depicted as quirky but very real The death of the author's grandmothers is poignant and tenderly handled The book includes elements of the author's left-leaning political activism The Competition: Graphic novel memoirs for young adults like Passing for Human by Liana Finck and Tomboy by Liz Prince have gotten a lot of attention. This one is unique in its art style and the focus on the author's relationship with her grandmothers. It will also be fun for readers to glimpse the life of a young adult growing up in England. News Tie-in/Current Relevance: The U.K. is in the news a lot because of the political issues surrounding Brexit. The book includes descriptions of the author participating in acts of political resistance. Notable Author/Illustrator: Danny illustrated Junkyard Jack and the Horse that Talked and Tilly and the Time Machine, both by Adrian Edmondson Her narrative art has appeared in many anthologies and exhibitions in the U.K. including The Strumpet, Dirty Rotten Comix, The Inking Women and Broken Frontier Yearbook The author sings in the ska band The Meow Meows which has music videos on YouTube. The author lives in London, UK

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Noble immediately establishes an authentically intimate voice, confessional but also self-aware and generous; her endearingly scratchy, impressionistic ink drawings feel like she's trusting readers with pages from her diary. --Publishers Weekly. Danny Noble's Shame Pudding is a wonderfully drawn, ridiculously sensitive, very wise and very funny graphic memoir that evokes what it's like to be a child--or to have been a child (or at least, to have been me as a child)--better than anything I've read. It gave me back something precious I thought I'd lost. I'm in awe and will reread it often. --Liana Fink, author of Passing for Human. I love this book. It's beautiful, touching, gritty and hilarious. A refreshing perspective on an era that's so familiar to many of us. So heartwarming but never saccharine. Very real and true. --Adrian Edmondson, actor and comedian. I was absolutely enamored with it from the start. Danny draws her story and the stories of those around her with a wonderfully delicate hand, and in a way that leaves a beautiful and lasting impact. Shame Pudding is a comforting memoir that captures the funny, strange and enduring spirit of family, and the love that we may always return to when things are falling apart. --Ruby Elliot, author of It's All Absolutely Fine. With masterfully whimsical drawings Danny Noble pictures the taste and texture of childhood and the highs and stomach knots of young adulthood. Vibrant family portraits emerge from Shame Pudding, characters I feel like I know, or wish I could: two big-hearted grandmas, one graceful and full of praise, the other ever-threatening fisticuffs, a genius brother who floats in air, quirky and supportive parents. But perhaps the most affecting character captured is the author herself, a self-proclaimed grubby girl plagued by social silence who grows to quell self-hate through music and art. Shame Pudding is a wholly unique story about giving voice to the inner wolf, and the family that always listens. --Amy Kurzweil, author of Floating Couch.

Noble immediately establishes an authentically intimate voice, confessional but also self-aware and generous; her endearingly scratchy, impressionistic ink drawings feel like she's trusting readers with pages from her diary. -Publishers Weekly. Growing up, Noble's inner wolf prevented her from being able to find her voice. While she was fascinated by werewolves, she was very shy with her peers and only really felt comfortable being herself when she was around her loud and vibrant family, especially 'the Mas.' The Mas, Grandma Min and Ma, are Danny's paternal and maternal grandmothers, respectively, and they are the true heart of this book: They are fully fleshed out in both prose and illustration and are therefore so real that they will be sure to make readers feel as if they knew and loved them too. -Kirkus Reviews. Danny Noble's Shame Pudding is a wonderfully drawn, ridiculously sensitive, very wise and very funny graphic memoir that evokes what it's like to be a child-or to have been a child (or at least, to have been me as a child)-better than anything I've read. It gave me back something precious I thought I'd lost. I'm in awe and will reread it often. -Liana Fink, author of Passing for Human. I love this book. It's beautiful, touching, gritty and hilarious. A refreshing perspective on an era that's so familiar to many of us. So heartwarming but never saccharine. Very real and true. -Adrian Edmondson, actor and comedian. I was absolutely enamored with it from the start. Danny draws her story and the stories of those around her with a wonderfully delicate hand, and in a way that leaves a beautiful and lasting impact. Shame Pudding is a comforting memoir that captures the funny, strange and enduring spirit of family, and the love that we may always return to when things are falling apart. -Ruby Elliot, author of It's All Absolutely Fine. With masterfully whimsical drawings Danny Noble pictures the taste and texture of childhood and the highs and stomach knots of young adulthood. Vibrant family portraits emerge from Shame Pudding, characters I feel like I know, or wish I could: two big-hearted grandmas, one graceful and full of praise, the other ever-threatening fisticuffs, a genius brother who floats in air, quirky and supportive parents. But perhaps the most affecting character captured is the author herself, a self-proclaimed grubby girl plagued by social silence who grows to quell self-hate through music and art. Shame Pudding is a wholly unique story about giving voice to the inner wolf, and the family that always listens. -Amy Kurzweil, author of Floating Couch.

Danny Noble's Shame Pudding is a wonderfully drawn, ridiculously sensitive, very wise and very funny graphic memoir that evokes what it's like to be a child--or to have been a child (or at least, to have been me as a child)--better than anything I've read. It gave me back something precious I thought I'd lost. I'm in awe and will reread it often. --Liana Fink, author of Passing for Human. I love this book. It's beautiful, touching, gritty and hilarious. A refreshing perspective on an era that's so familiar to many of us. So heartwarming but never saccharine. Very real and true. --Adrian Edmondson, actor and comedian. I was absolutely enamored with it from the start. Danny draws her story and the stories of those around her with a wonderfully delicate hand, and in a way that leaves a beautiful and lasting impact. Shame Pudding is a comforting memoir that captures the funny, strange and enduring spirit of family, and the love that we may always return to when things are falling apart. --Ruby Elliot, author of It's All Absolutely Fine. With masterfully whimsical drawings Danny Noble pictures the taste and texture of childhood and the highs and stomach knots of young adulthood. Vibrant family portraits emerge from Shame Pudding, characters I feel like I know, or wish I could: two big-hearted grandmas, one graceful and full of praise, the other ever-threatening fisticuffs, a genius brother who floats in air, quirky and supportive parents. But perhaps the most affecting character captured is the author herself, a self-proclaimed grubby girl plagued by social silence who grows to quell self-hate through music and art. Shame Pudding is a wholly unique story about giving voice to the inner wolf, and the family that always listens. --Amy Kurzweil, author of Floating Couch.

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Danny Noble grew up in Brighton, a seaside town on the south coast of England. She later moved to London, and even lived through several winters in a trailer in a public park. She recently illustratedtwo children's bookswritten bythe famous British comedian, Adrian Edmondson.And her narrative art has appeared in many anthologies and exhibitions including The Strumpet, Dirty Rotten Comix, The Inking Women. When not drawing, the author sings with the ska band The Meow Meows.

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